Q. In your postgame remarks following the preseason opener against Houston, you used words like sloppy and disappointing, you referred to a couple of aspects of the team’s performance as “JV.” Because that was a preseason game, and the first one at that, was that performance a better outcome than a well-executed win, since it provided so many teaching tools for your final days in Latrobe?
A. Time will tell that story. Results like that get people’s attention, and attention is good, particularly in terms of development at this time of year. But you never want to play like that. You know, that’s putting a positive spin on a negative outcome. You just don’t want to play like that. You like to eliminate problems before they happen, because to me that’s high level coaching and playing. Adequate coaching and playing is making problems disappear quickly, and so I’m excited about us getting an opportunity to bounce back from some of those things, some of those self-inflicted wounds. Because it’s an important component of development, you can’t begin to talk about beating other people until you stop beating yourself. And so we did some things in that game that are just not characteristic of sound ball. Getting under punts or not getting under punts. We were highly penalized in some instances, center-quarterback exchanges, some pre-snap penalties, junior varsity football.
Q. What was your tone with the team in the video review of that performance?
A. It was appropriate. The film review is a significant component of the get-better cycle. We play, then we analyze that play on video, and through that analysis we chart a course for our next opportunity. Whether it’s how we divide up the labor, who gets what opportunities and how much, or the things that we do, or the things that we focus on in drill work from a prep standpoint, the physical prep. And so the film session is a major component of it. It really starts the process of readying yourself for the next task….
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